A GIRL was allegedly kept prisoner at home by her parents for ten years as the authorities failed to check on her.
The 19–year-old was rescued from the family’s home following a tip-off from a concerned neighbour.
She was said to have been in a distressed state, having being trapped in the property in Tenterden, Kent, since she was nine.
Her parents were arrested for neglect as a multi-agency inquiry was launched amid claims she vanished from the view of education, health and social services.
A source said: “The girl was in a distressed state when she was found and has been taken into care. She is receiving physical and psychiatric help. But there are a lot of questions being asked over how it could have happened.”
It has chilling echoes of cases such as the disappearance of Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted in 1998 at ten and held in a secret cellar in Austria for more than eight years. She was beaten and raped during her captivity.
However, it was not known what was behind the Kent girl’s imprisonment.
Her parents took her out of school when she was nine to home tutor her. But the girl, who has special needs, has not been seen since and was kept at the family home. The source: “It is hard to comprehend how it could happen.
SOURCE: thesun.co.uk
